The Red Spectre, 1907, dir. Ferdinand Zecca and Segundo de Chomón.
One dark night,
My Tudor Ford climbed the hill’s skull;
I watched for love-cars. Lights turned down,
they lay together, hull to hull,
where the graveyard shelves upon the town… .
My mind’s not right.
—From “Skunk Hour” by Robert Lowell, published in Selected Poems (Revised Edition), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1984.
Cover of Rudimentary Peni’s 1982 live album Catastrophe. Art by Nick Blinko, the band’s vocalist/guitarist.
“The Horrors in the Museum,” from Rudimentary Peni’s 1987 album Cacophony.
A muse musing in a museum
What’s the use of looking if you don’t see ‘em?
Always just that bit behind glass
Always just that bit behind glass.
Fondling the master’s skull,
fondling the master’s skull as a child…
Mikey Wild’s skeleton, “Uncle Vinny”.
and the night birds wake
to their fast heartbeats
in the trees. The woman beside you
is breathing evenly. All day
you were in a body. Now
you are in a skull. Wind,
streetlights, trees flicker
on the ceiling in the dark.
Illustration for Berenstein Bears publication, late 20th century (exact date unknown).
Thanks to www.bluemcniel.com
